Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependant on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.

When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.

Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing.

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.

Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.

You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She wiped at his shirt more frantically, as if she could prevent it from staining if she rubbed hard enough. "Oh, now I see your plan, and it's far more devious than I thought." Daniel smirked. "You were looking for an excuse to grope me.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.

Adult don't know what they say and what they mean once that... other moment something else... it's okay for the kids... they grow... they still don't know a lot of stuff but so far I see that they have an a excuse! - BUt what's the adult... excuse?!

Adult don't know what they say and what they mean once that... other moment something else... it's okay for the kids... they grown they still don't know a lot of stuff but they have excuse! - BUt what's the adult... excuse?!

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

Anxiety and Afraid of being rejected, have always been the killer/s of our dreams.... .... Sounds like this story has been already told by me?

You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.

A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.' (Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.) [Diary entry, February 13 1756]

Apology makes you self responsible while excuse makes you undependable

Bernie cursed and swore like a sailor sometimes, even around young children, to the point where he was kicked out of Disney World during a trip to Orlando, Florida one year. To boot, he’d jabbed a sewing needle into the helium Mickey Mouse balloons of at least twenty kids before a park worker dressed as Cinderella finally called security. “Disney’s a greedy, bloodsucking corporation,” was Bernie’s half-assed excuse. Tony wasn’t sure that even Bernie himself knew why he had an attitude like that.

Bad things are always gonna happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.

Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life’s adventures... they see themselves going through with smiles... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!

But the christian story of God the Father putting his son to death, or employing people to do it, (for that is the plain language of the story,) cannot be told by a parent to a child; and to tell him that it was done to make mankind happier and better, is making the story still worse; as if mankind could be improved by the example of murder; and to tell him that all this is a mystery, is only making an excuse for the incredibility of it.

Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and "but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is doing!" isn't a very good excuse for being hooked on a glowing screen 24/7. In the 1960's every teen of the times was tripping on acid and running off to find themselves in communes and love buses. It was a fad, there was no excuse for it and it passed, just like I think that this generation's "cell phones are necessary for socialization" fad will eventually pass. What will it bring afterwards? I don't even want to know, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it isn't anything else digital.